Anti-smoking advocate fires up area students

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[chance33_98]

Anti-smoking advocate fires up area students

By: KEVAN MATHIS October 08, 2002

Area school children and residents are currently hearing "What the Tobacco Industry Doesn't Want You to Know" after the North Arkansas Partnership for Health Education, Boone County Hometown Health Improvement Coalition and Boone County Tobacco Free Coalition brought a former tobacco researcher to Harrison. Dr. Victor DeNoble, Ph.D., spoke to the Harrison High School students at 10 this morning about the chemical dangers of tobacco.

"I'm a scientist but I deal mostly with animals about how tobacco effects them in dangerous ways," he told a packed auditorium.

He showed slides and even showed the students a monkey brain as well as the actual brain of a long-time smoker who died from years of tobacco abuse. "Oh, that was too cool," said one student sitting on the front row.

According to an interview with the Law Vegas Review-Journal, the researcher said, "I was never an opponent of the tobacco industry. Nor a proponent. I think people have a right to smoke if they want. I think the tobacco industry needs to stop marketing to kids and make a safer product. End of story."

DeNoble, whose billing says, "A tobacco company hired him to research nicotine. He was so successful, he lost his job," is scheduled to make seven appearances during his visit to Harrison on Monday and Tuesday. After three speeches Monday, Tuesday's schedule includes: 10 a.m. speech to Hometown Health Improvement Coalition and public at the John Paul Hammerschmidt Center on the South Campus of North Arkansas College, 11:30 a.m. luncheon with hometown health leaders and community partners, 1:15 p.m. speech to area fifth and sixth graders at Pioneer Pavilion on the South Campus of North Arkansas, and 7 p.m. speech to the public at the John Paul Hammerschmidt Center on the South Campus of North Arkansas College.

A press release about the speech says that DeNoble was recruited by Philip Morris in the 1980s to develop a safer cigarette. He promises to offer facts on the tobacco company's expenditures to keep smokers addicted. "After Dr. DeNoble's lab was seized and he was fired, he became one of the first 'whistle blowers' to being tearing down the wall of secrecy built by the tobacco industry."

He promises that the seminar will offer information and insight into at least four topics: the tobacco industry's ongoing efforts to get people (especially youth) hooked, the addictive nature of nicotine and why people can't quit, the dangers of second-hand smoke to others, and methods to help people quit.

DeNoble told the News-Journal that tobacco executives knew nicotine was addictive and that it helped cause heart disease. His job was to find a nicotine alternative - a substance that could keep smokers just as addicted but without causing heart problems. DeNoble said he worked on a restricted-access floor with windows painted black. He eventually was fired, his lab seized, and he was sworn to secrecy.

His story will include details about how findings of his research were finally leaked.

[chance33_98]

Now if we could just get a captive audience like that to hear the truth about liberals.

[VRWC_minion]

He showed slides and even showed the students a monkey brain as well as the actual brain of a long-time smoker who died from years of tobacco abuse.

I wonder how they know the difference.

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[widowithfoursons]

Doesn't he realize that Al Pacino and Russell Crowe already did this movie? All the big bucks gone already.

[SheLion]

"I'm a scientist but I deal mostly with animals about how tobacco effects them in dangerous ways," he told a packed auditorium.

I bet THAT'S a pretty picture! Where's the animal lovers when we need them!

[Not_Who_U_Think]

I had an "annimated discussion" the other day with a friend who is a former smoker. She was spouting the line "the tobacco companies put dangerous chemicals into cigarettes." Yes they do, I said, they put in chocolate, sugar and other flavorings. (in the case of Marlboro, cummin gives it the distinctive flavor) Ok, what about soduim hydroxide? she said. Yes they do, in order to obtain a standard release of nicotine. The truth is, tobacco companies have been able to remove ALL the nicotine from tobacco for over 30 years, but consummers wouldn't buy them. They simply make a product that the consumers want. Why does Chevy make a Corvette? It's a dangerous car in the hands of an inexperienced driver, whose power exceeds any practical application.

They make it because there is a demand for it in the marketplace. I'm not saying tobacco is good for you, but there simply is not evil intent. They're in the business to sell their product. And while I'm out on this limb, I'll go so far as to say nicotine is not addictive in the classical sense - I know several 'recreational' smokers who can smoke one evening and not smoke again for several weeks, or smoke one every once in a while.

[Just another Joe]

If all he does is tell the truth, He promises that the seminar will offer information and insight into at least four topics: the tobacco industry's ongoing efforts to get people (especially youth) hooked, the addictive nature of nicotine and why people can't quit, the dangers of second-hand smoke to others, and methods to help people quit.

Oooops, there goes that idea.

[Just another Joe]

And while I'm out on this limb, I'll go so far as to say nicotine is not addictive in the classical sense

Better be careful that the antis don't saw that limb off with the handsaw of propoganda.

[SheLion]

I know several 'recreational' smokers who can smoke one evening and not smoke again for several weeks, or smoke one every once in a while.

Thank you! And smoking a cigarette for recreational purposes sure beats prescription drugs and booze!

[SheLion]

Better be careful that the antis don't saw that limb off with the handsaw of propoganda.

And boy, do we know how good they are at THAT!

[Great Dane]

I know several 'recreational' smokers who can smoke one evening and not smoke again for several weeks, or smoke one every once in a while.

I too have several friends like that, but the ANTI's will tell you thats not possible.

[Judith Anne]

I know a number of people who only smoke when they're out socially.

And they don't patronize places that limit smoking.

It's odd, but without attempting to quit, and enjoying tobacco use daily, the number of cigarettes I smoke has gone down over the last ten years, to where I smoke 12-15 per day. No reason for it--I used to smoke 1-1/2 packs daily...

I quit smoking for several long periods, earlier, when I bought into the propaganda, but made the decision to never quit again. Interestingly, I had no withdrawal symptoms.

Let's talk about that word, "addict" that so many throw at us smokers--in fact, let's talk about all the rude things anti-smokers say....

[metesky]

I had a friend on Cape Cod, a former MassPort Commissioner dead now from old age, who smoked unfiltered Lucky Strikes his entire life, one with morning coffee, one after lunch, one after dinner and one before bed.

That was it.

[Great Dane]

#14....... Have a friend,[ a doctors wife of all things,] who comes for coffee now and then and will have one of my cigs, she smokes maybe one or two a month, another friend never smokes to after lunch, another never smokes to after supper, I also have a lot of friends who smokes only in social settings. ........ addiction indeed.

[Max McGarrity]

Shame on you for bringing logic into a discussion about those eeeeeviiiill tobacco companies! /sarcasm

[Max McGarrity]

Are you me?

Seriously, we must be in the same age group because our experiences are so similar, and I've found that young whippersnappers have been so brainwashed all their lives, they are often completely incapable of seeing clearly.

[Judith Anne]

Hmmmmm.....LOL! Am I you? Well... Are you in bed with my husband? ROFL! (*see, smokers are MUCH more witty and fun!*)

[Judith Anne]

You have FReepmail. ;-D

[Calico Cat]

I know more closet smokers than anyone...constantly being surprised by the people who hit me up for a cigarette. The latest being the wife of my husband's friend, a very clean-cut, Martha Stewart-esque domestic goddess who snatched it from my hand and inhaled like she was dying of thirst and the cig was full of water. Of course, she felt the need to hide it. Image, you know.